Filipino producers are being urged to take advantage of the recent lifting of the ban on local fish products and avail of the grant of the Generalised System of Preferences+ (EU GSP+) by the European Union (EU) to increase their exports to France. Philippine shipments to the European nation have been on a decline due to "weak and undiversified" exports, even as French exports to the country continue to balloon, causing widening trade imbalance, said the European office of the Department of Foreign Affairs in a recent communication to Foreign Affairs Secretary Gregory L. Domingo.

PH urged to hike fish exports to France. (2015, June 30). Malaya Business Insight, p. A4.